Opportunity for Health
@OppforHealthLab
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We study how economic opportunity affects health, and identify policies that can boost opportunity and improve health for all Americans.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined August 2020
📣 New Podcast from IRP: Rourke O’Brien on the Impact of Spending by Different Levels of Government https://t.co/7RZks3xDZ7
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Perspective by Atheendar S. Venkataramani, MD, PhD, Pritpal S. Tamber, MB, ChB, and Anthony Iton, MD, MPH, JD: Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Population Health https://t.co/zG3RV7aYyR
#HealthPolicy #PublicHealth
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Do poverty traps exist? @ed_jee's study of 27 RCTs finds they're real but rare. Though fixed costs make traps common, forward-looking behavior & productivity differences mean they only affect 25% of households. Read more: https://t.co/dIx7XdnJoO
#UChicago #EconJobMarket
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🚨 Job Market Paper 🚨 Wealth Inequality and Labor Mobility: The Job Trap Does wealth affect workers’ ability to move to better jobs? Why do some remain stuck with low wages? My answer: The Job Security Premium Paper: https://t.co/PB3iKxtsju 1/12 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket
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Developing a step-by-step guide to leniency designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures, from @paulgp, @instrumenthull, and Michal Kolesár https://t.co/Fd0VnR2mW2
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Being covered by the Voting Rights Act led to lower mortality for children of all races and Black people of all ages, but *increases* in mortality for white adolescents and adults. Mechanisms could include the psychological impact of lost status: https://t.co/tqXGhz048v
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Excellent post. While it remains important to continue studying causality and refining our methods, the question of what is the most central determinant of Y is often overlooked. As social scientists, we may be focused too much on the stars*** and not enough on Rsquared.
"Causation does not imply variation." A lovely saying coined by Tyler Muir with applications to price pressure in stocks and the causality revolution in applied micro. Just because x causes y does not mean most variation in y is caused by x. https://t.co/8CIpeREBth
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Working paper can be found here: https://t.co/XTkJkdG7Tv and here: https://t.co/oAyPCFIjIm
#economics #health #VotingRightsAct
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We study the health consequences of redistributing political power through the 1975 extension of the Voting Rights Act, which eliminated barriers to voting for previously disenfranchised nonwhite...
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Political institutions determine who governs-and who lives. New work from our lab finds that enfranchising marginalized groups improved their health. Redistribution of power also worsened health in mortality for non-targeted groups-despite improved economic circumstances.
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Arguing that complexity methods can augment the study of inequality, with particular value in understanding the meaning of systemic determinants of disparities, from @sndurlauf, David McMillon, and Scott Page https://t.co/uM0AwufBEj
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The 1975 Voting Rights Act extension lowered mortality for most nonwhite groups but raised it for white adults and older nonwhite men, patterns consistent with status threat, from Atheendar Venkataramani, Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth F. Bair, and @c_lowenstein
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This @pennldi.bsky.social post discusses recent Op-Ed: https://t.co/Q0nak77MfK ↪️ Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Population Health in @NEJM.org https://t.co/CNhnnEI1k0 by PARC Research Associate Atheendar Venkataramani et al. Read more below:
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Public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources and opportunities.
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It was exciting to see OfH Lab members sharing their work during the poster session at this week’s @PennCHIBE Retreat! Our PM Hilu presented qualitative findings from the IGNITE study, and pre-doc Ritikaa presented on “Understanding the recent decline in US life expectancy”.
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Greater future pension wealth in Chile leads people to invest more in preventive care and healthier habits—boosting diagnoses, lowering disease, and cutting mortality, from Grant Miller, Nieves Valdés, and Marcos Vera-Hernández https://t.co/AE0Ku6XB7k
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We are pleased to announce the new line-up for CHIBE's Virtual Research Seminar Series! This series will convene leading scholars and experts to examine the intersection of human behavior, economic principles, and health outcomes. https://t.co/t3ViCvf66z
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The Opportunity for Health Lab is thrilled to be partnering with The Skills Initiative on WORKS - a new study exploring the powerful connection between economic opportunity and health. #OpportunityForHealth #SkillsInitiative #ResearchCollaboration
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In @NEJM, Atheendar Venkataramani (@PennMEHP) & colleagues discuss how public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources & opportunities @OppforHealthLab
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Are worms good or bad (in the long term)? In new work, I examine links between infectious diseases in childhood and adult lifespan decades later, and test the role of pathogens in childhood on allergies in adulthood: the “hygiene hypothesis”. (1/10)
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Is AI already impacting the job market? A new paper from me, @erikbryn, and @RuyuChen at @DigEconLab digs into data from ADP. We find some of the ***first large-scale evidence of employment declines for entry-level workers in AI-exposed jobs.*** A thread on our paper:
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The Yale Population Studies Workshop is live! Check out our fall lineup here: https://t.co/w8u9urWRLl Speakers span sociology, economics, medicine, and political science. Both Yale and non-Yale folks are welcome to sign up for the email listserv!
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